Im terrified about environmental degradation

[XanaDUer2]

Can any group keep Trumps rape of the environment at bay?

[LisaL]

1. I am afraid not.

NT

[Demovictory9]

2. ..

[Raine]

5. 😥 nt

[kwolf68]

3. Nope it's over

I have master degree (so I am the elitist they talk about) in Environmental Science and Conservation. I am toying with the idea of going back to pursue either a PhD or do something else. I am devastated at what has happened and don't watch much politics anymore and this is the way Im dealing with it, I'm going to go back and learn more, study our amazing environment that's being pushed ever closer to the brink. Not because I want to be an elitist, but just because I want to learn more. FUCK you if you think learning more is bad. THAT said, if one doesn't have higher education, I don't hold that against them at all, lots of amazing people who work their asses off don't have any college and they deserve respect too.

[vapor2]

4. My very concern too

Fluoride removed from our water, companies dumping toxic waste into our rivers, less restriction on car emissions etc etc etc. What else will they do to destroy our environment, our country?

[Raine]

6. The environment is my number one issue. 😱😓 nt

[kwolf68]

7. So many people don't give a shit

But HOW can you not? It's asinine how the environment is a nothing burger issue to most people. People can't see the interdependence between humans and the environment.

The reason it's a nothing issue is because I have Republican friends who are pissed at pollution. One of my best friends, a huge Trumper is a big fisherman and despises what we have done, he even says we should treat the environment the way the Native Americans did. And HE votes for Trump. lol

[Yavin4]

8. Climate change won last Tuesday.

Won in a big way. The earth will just adapt. Humans? Well, that's another story.

[hunter]

9. Life on this planet has seen worse.

Unfortunately my formal training as an Evolutionary Biologist turned me into some kind of misanthropist and cynic.

Clawing my way back from that, taking after my mom, was perversely Social Justice Warrior Pacifist Bitch Catholic heretic.

Not a path I recommend.

[kwolf68]

10. Evolutionary Biologist -- love that

I'd love for you to expand on "seen worse". During the time of man?

Again, we don't truly know yet what we are going to see.

And in geological history the "worse" stuff, such as the permian extinction event that killed off over 90% of everything that lived, did so over such a long time it allowed a few species to survive by adaptation and then radiation of new species (such as big giant reptiles). The PACE of the historical ecological horror was slow enough where it allowed evolution to work. The current dynamics don't fit that model and I fear potential evolutionary factors won't be allowed to facilitate because of how fast we are fucking up shit.

I'd love to hear your views on this. You seem to be optimistic. LOL.

[hunter]

11. If I wasn't optimistic I'd be dead.

.

[hatrack]

13. "Social Justice Warrior Pacifist Bitch Catholic Heretic" - Damn, Hunter . . . .

You just said a mouthful!

[SupportSanity]

12. That's pretty much it. Global heating will accelerate. The hot temperature this year will be the cool temp next year.

Atlantic ocean currents about to change.
Changes will be permanent.

[hatrack]

14. We just passed the low month (October) for atmospheric CO2 content . . .

So not only will we never see 420 ppm again, we'll never see 422 again in our lifetimes, and by this time next year, 424 or 425 will be the new baseline, and so on.